Thursday, April 21, 2011

December 9: Met with Blake this evening for the first time. He stood in the shadows to prevent me from getting a clear look at his face. What a vile disease this is. He is a rich man with a cursed condition, but this does not prevent him from trying to better his situation and that of his comrades at the colony.

December 11: Blake's proposition is simple, He wants to move off Tanzier Island and re-locate the entire colony just north of here. He has purchased a clipper ship called the Elizabeth Dane with part of his fortune and asks only for permission to settle here. I must balance my feelings of mercy and compassion for this poor man, with my revulsion at the thought of a leper colony only a mile distant.

April 20: The six of us met tonight. From midnight until one o'clock, we planned the death of Blake and his comrades. I tell myself that Blake's gold will allow the church to be built, and our small settlement to become a township, but it does not soothe the horror that I feel being an accomplice to murder.

We took Blake to a bank of the Delaware River and had a bunch of LED flashlights and giant smoke bombs in a large tin coffee can.

At one point a tug boat went by and saw the commotion on shore and hit us with a giant spotlight...a really neat moment. Then the wake from the boat reached the shore and the creepy rolling waves made the most amazing sounds in the dark.

Thanks, man.I had a note in my pad written for the longest time "Blake and his men"...I always imagined making a bunch of them and standing them at the Jersey shore somewhere at night... Ghost Ship day was a great way to get me to follow through with most of the plan : )

Your work is so groovy -- you achieve detail and atmosphere in one shot, so very hard to do. Really, really good stuff. Thanks for supporting HalloweeNut -- he's one of my favorite Creatures of the Night!

Did the zombie in the background ever have a front? Did the main zombie (not the one with it's head bowed) ever have any legs and feet? Was the OTHER zombie (The one looking up in a few shots) just a groundbreaker. You only have to make what you show....